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MARGARIDA ORFILA, OBRA PIANÍSTICA

ISABEL FÈLIX, piano
[Columna Música, 2020]

After years studying and looking for unpublished scores, Isabel Fèlix presents the first worldwide recording of the complete solo piano music by Margarida Orfila. It means rescuing from oblivion and vindicating a twentieth century composer. Margarida Orfila (Maó, 1889 – Barcelona, ​​1970) studied at the Escola Municipal de Música de Barcelona and she soon became a pianist and composer. At the age of seventeen she was appointed professor at the Conservatory, where she would teach until her retirement. Barcelona cultural life was particularly lively at the beginning of the twentieth century and this promoted her career, which was also closely linked to the Orfeó Català. She was awarded several prizes. Within her output, the compositions for piano are certainly the most significant, but she also wrote many songs, choral pieces, chamber music for strings and piano, and more. The high quality and individuality of her music make her worthy of a place in the repertoire of today’s pianists.

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Primer temps d’una sonata (Lema: I també lo romàntich) [1912]

Tres Melodies per a piano [1907-1912]

I. Primera melodia
II. Segona melodia
III. Tercera melodia

Sonata per a piano (Lema: Visca lo clàssich) [1910]

I. Senzill i sense córrer
II. Tema i 6 Variacions
III. Volant

Scherzo Op. 22 [1929]

Petites Semblances Op. 24 (Ofrena als meus fills) [1929]

I. Frederic
II. Margarida
III. Joan
IV. Francisco
V. Carme

Quatre Estudis (Lema: Estudiem tot pensant en les nostres cançons) [1933]

I. Homenatge a Chopin
II. Moderat quasi lent
III. Scherzo
IV. Tema i 6 Variacions

Total time 82:01

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L’ÂME ÉVAPORÉE

XISCO AGUILÓ, double bass – ISABEL FÈLIX, piano
[Sonoteque, 2018]

L’âme évaporée is a selection of French songs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by composers such as Debussy, Fauré, Chausson, Hahn, Duparc and Szulc, arranged for double bass and piano by Xisco Aguiló and Isabel Fèlix. In this album, the double bass shows its most melodic aspect, offering a new version of this beautiful repertoire, which stands out to include refined, inspired piano parts with extraordinary beauty.

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Henri DUPARC (1848-1933): Soupir
Joseph SZULC (1875-1956): Clair de lune
Henri DUPARC: Élegie
Ernest CHAUSSON (1855-1899): Le colibri
Reynaldo HAHN (1874-1947): À Chloris
Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918): L’âme évaporée
Claude DEBUSSY: Beau soir
Claude DEBUSSY: Les cloches
Reynaldo HAHN: Néère
Henri DUPARC: Chanson triste
Ernest CHAUSSON: Hébé
Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924): Les berceaux
Henri DUPARC: L’invitation au voyage
Ernest CHAUSSON: Le Charme
Ernest CHAUSSON: Les heures
Reynaldo HAHN: Si mes vers avaient des ailes

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BARCELONA BELLE ÉPOQUE

LAURA GAYA, violin – ISABEL FÈLIX, piano
[Solfa Recordings, 2015]

Barcelona Belle Époque is a journey to Barcelona in the early 20th century through the music of composers known as the noucentista generation. Laura Gaya and Isabel Fèlix present on this album the complete works for violin and piano by four composers of that time: Joan Massià, Margarida Orfila, Manuel Blancafort and Frederic Mompou. Although all four show clearly resonances from the Catalan music, the first two can be considered as a continuation of the Germanic tradition. Orfila is ascribed to the prevalent postromantic trends in that time while Massià is most identified with neoclassicism. In contrast, Mompou and Blancafort were inspired by the French post-impressionist trends that fight against omnipresent passion for Wagnerism.

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Margarida ORFILA (1889 – 1970)
Frisança*
Barcarola*
Scherzando*

Manuel BLANCAFORT (1897 – 1987)
Per l’Helena*
Romança de saló*
Pastorel·la

Joan MASSIÀ (1890 – 1969)
Intrata
Rigaudon
Amoroso
Allegro spiritoso

Frederic MOMPOU (1893 – 1987)
Altitud
Jeunes filles au jardin, arr. Joseph Szigeti
Elegia, arr. Xavier Turull
Cançó i Dansa núm. 1, arr. Xavier Turull *
Cançó i Dansa núm. 6, arr. Lluís Soler *
Cançó i Dansa núm. 7, arr. Lluís Soler *

*world first recording

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A L’OMBRA DEL PIANO

ISABEL FÈLIX, fortepiano
ORQUESTRA DE CAMBRA ILLA DE MENORCA – ANDREW WATKINSON, concertino & conductor
[Columna Música, 2010]

A musical journey to the agitated and disrupted Europe at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. It is not in vain that the magic of Menorca has brought the energy and enthusiasm of a group of young established British and Minorcan musicians to record the music of three composers themselves already established as young men: Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. Three works for three interpreters: the OCIM, a fresh and vigorous impulse; the talented young Minorcan pianist Isabel Fèlix, playing on a Walter & Sohn model fortepiano in the manner of those Enlightenment noblewomen who created and performed original cadenzas; the Glasgow-born guest conductor and concertmaster Andrew Watkinson, with his British logic and a historical criteria. In the manner of a cosmopolitan “Schubertiade” we are about to embark on a journey in the shade of a pine tree and a piano.

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Joseph HAYDN (1732 – 1809)
Concert for pianoforte Hob. XVIII:3 in F major
I. Allegro (cadenza by Isabel Fèlix)
II. Largo cantabile (cadenza by Isabel Fèlix)
III. Presto

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756 – 1791)
Concert for pianoforte No. 12 KV. 414 in A major
I. Allegro (fermata by Isabel Fèlix, cadenza by W.A. Mozart)
II. Andante (fermata and cadenza by W.A. Mozart)
III. Rondó: Allegretto (cadenza by W.A. Mozart)

Franz SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828)
Adagio e Rondo concertante in F major for pianoforte, violin, viola, cello (and doublebass ad lib.) D. 487
(fermatas by Isabel Fèlix)

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IMPRESSIONS – J. Prohens

ISABEL FÈLIX, piano – ANDREU RIERA, piano – BARTOMEU MUT, organ – LLORENÇ FERRER, marimba and vibraphone – VÍCTOR PELLEGRINI, guitar – JOSÉ MANUEL ÁLVAREZ, violin – DIMITRI STRUCHKOV, cello – AMPARO DEL RIEGO, cello – JOSEP FRANCESC PALOU, flute – VÍCTOR DE LA ROSA, clarinet
[Digitals Pro, 2017]

Collection of works of chamber music by Majorcan composer Josep Prohens, written between 2001 and 2016. Prohens’s music explores the timbral, dynamic and expressive possibilities of each instrument to create an unmistakable sound universe.

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– Impressions
Víctor Pellegrini, guitarra

– Introducció
Josep Francesc Palou, flauta – Llorenç Ferrer, marimba

– Petita fantasia per a piano
Andreu Riera, piano

– Relacions per a marimba i piano
Llorenç Ferrer, marimba – Isabel Fèlix, piano

– Variacions sobre Orbis Factor
Bartomeu Mut, orgue

– Fantasia per a piano i marimba
Isabel Fèlix, piano – Llorenç Ferrer, marimba

– Sons per a vibràfon i piano
Llorenç Ferrer, vibràfon – Isabel Fèlix, piano

– Fantasia per a violoncel i guitarra
Amparo del Riego, violoncel – Víctor Pellegrini, guitarra

– Quartet per a l’eternitat
Víctor de la Rosa, clarinet – José Manuel Álvarez, violí – Dimitri Struchkov, violoncel – Andreu Riera, piano

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LOS OTROS CONTEMPORÁNEOS II

INÉS MORALEDA, mezzosoprano – JOAN MARTÍN-ROYO, bariton – ISABEL FÈLIX, piano (songs by M. Ortega) – ALBERT GUINOVART, piano (songs by A. Guinovart and A. García Demestres) – FERRAN CRUIXENT, piano (songs by F. Cruixent)
[June 3rd 2012]

Live recording of an unforgettable evening at Musitekton in where four contemporary composers -Alberto Garcia Demestres, Albert Guinovart, Miquel Ortega and Ferran Cruixent- presented music and poetry for an audience that enjoyed the unique experience of being a direct participant in several world premieres, as well as “Duets Express” written especially for the occasion. CDs numbered limited edition, not for sale.

Albert GUINOVART (Barcelona, 1962)
Tànit, cançons de desig per a una veu.* (2012) – Manuel Forcano
Tu el mar, jo el blau
Del meu nord tu ets el sud
Era que et somniava
T’estim
Què és el desig

Miquel ORTEGA (Barcelona, 1963)
Del ciclo Les quatre estacions. (1981-1986) – Josep Carner
II- Març, marçot.*
VII- Aigües de la primavera. *
X- Obsessió lunar.
XIV- A un gripau. *

Nueve gacelas por el monte Libano. (2008/2009) – Rodolfo Häsler

4 DUET EXPRESS.* (2012)
Albert GUINOVART: Amore eterno
Miquel ORTEGA: Ich liebe dich
Ferran CRUIXENT: Oh, com t’estimo…
Alberto GARCIA DEMESTRES: Love

Ferran CRUIXENT (Barcelona, 1976)
Si sigués…*(2012) – Frederic Soler (Pitarra)
La veu. * (2012) – Manuel de Pedrolo

Alberto GARCIA DEMESTRES (Barcelona, 1960)
Prayer of Columbus.* (2012) – Walt Whitman

*world premiere

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